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I like very much Sean's comment :'Come on, string theorists! Make some effort to explain to everyone why this set of lofty speculations is as promising as you know it to be. It won’t hurt too much, really.'

:-) Well, maybe they are afraid to find out that Brian Greene has used up all their words. I like this sentence much better:

Peter Woit agrees that "things are not looking good for a physical theory when there start being public debates on the subject”; indeed I'm just about ready to give up on evolution for just that reason.

Without doubt, this wasn't exactly Peter Woit's most intelligent statement, but Sean has made his point. I just hope they won't pick around this sentence forever. I sometimes wonder if these guys don't have better things to do with their Sunday afternoons... oops, I'm late. Cafe-meeting: gotta plan my institute ;-) Best,